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Cambridge police yesterday assigned two detectives to solve the theft of more than $250 from Liberal Union film proceeds...
...Howard Fast, and put them in a locked glass case. Cambridge librarian Phillip H. Dolan '35 yesterday admitted Fast's book had been segregated, but said it had been done at least three years ago, before he became librarian. "It was probably locked up as a precaution against theft," Dolan said. "I have not taken any such books off the shelves...
Last week a Neapolitan street railway official phoned the police to report the distressing theft of a half-ton of trolley tracks and overhead trolley wire from an abandoned line in a Naples suburb. Naples' police rounded up the thieves (they had worked for three weeks in the bright Neapolitan sunshine ripping up the rails, even recruiting hired laborers to help), and wearily set to work on a new chore-patrolling the miles of trolley track still unstolen...
Five college girls were robbed of $2,277 in clothing and jewelry after the Cornell-Yale football game Saturday in New Haven. Less than a year ago, a similar theft occurred here when $1,824 in clothing and accessories were stolen...
Star of the show, as well as its director, is Jack Webb, 32, who plays Police Sergeant Joe Friday with a minimum of fake heroics. His cases range from simple theft to multiple murder, but the program is more concerned with the painstaking solving of crimes than with showing their gory execution. Once the entire half-hour was devoted to a verbal third degree, as Webb and his fellow detective, Ed Jacobs, broke down a coolly stubborn jewel thief...